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Cassidy Dawn Graves

Cassidy Dawn Graves is a musician, variety show producer, and freelance journalist based in Brooklyn.

Cassidy Dawn Graves is a musician, variety show producer, and freelance journalist based in Brooklyn. In addition to playing sex-positive indie folk-rock music, she curates and produces two variety shows, a seasonal showcase for women and gender non-conforming creators called Am I Write, Ladies? and a monthly benefit show called Queers N Peers she hosts with drag performer Comrade Barbie. Cassidy has written for The Nation, MEL, Garage, Nylon, Gothamist, Bedford + Bowery, INTO, and others. Get updates on upcoming shows and writing at tinyletter.com/cdgcassidydawngraves.com

Eating the Rich
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Eating the Rich

Sweeney Todd’s Vicious Capitalism

18 June 2018

Cassidy Dawn Graves writes about the anti-capitalist narrative present in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the significance of producing the musical in 2018.

Questioning the Casting and the Hump
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Questioning the Casting and the Hump

29 January 2018

Cassidy Dawn Graves writes about Thomas Ostermeier’s production of Richard III and questions why we still see able-bodied actors playing characters with disabilities.

Sabine Women, Satire, and What Is Truly “Daring?”
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Sabine Women, Satire, and What Is Truly “Daring?”

24 October 2017

Is sexual assault a daring subject for satire? Cassidy Dawn Graves considers Michael Yates Crowley’s The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias and how satire may be the perfect tone to portray the empowerment of the disempowered.

A Sci-Fi B-Movie for the Musical Stage
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A Sci-Fi B-Movie for the Musical Stage

12 July 2017

Wild Women of Planet Wongo is a cliched tribute to sci-fi and B-movies about worlds without men.

"I'm asking you to stop"
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"I'm asking you to stop"

What The Qualms Ignores

16 July 2015

Cassidy Dawn Graves on the Playwrights Horizons production of The Qualms by Bruce Norris.